Necessary lies
By: Diane Chamberlain
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781447211259
Subjects: Married women; Teenage girls; Poor families; Social conditions; Involuntary sterilization; Social workers; Fiction
Description: Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.